Oracle announces using 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors

We reported yesterday on usandglobal.com that Intel launched its most advanced, highest performance data center platform and showcased the new 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable processors and that Cisco announced new server solutions supported by the new Intel processors.

Oracle, too, announced availability of Compute hardware instances with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon scalable processors, with these instances being generally available worldwide on April 28.

Compared with the prior generation of X7 HPC instances, these new instances deliver performance gains of up to 42%.

The new instances are the first to offer Oracle’s flexible Compute capabilities. Customers can use the capabilities “to choose any granular number of cores and amount of memory to suit” the needs of their workload.

“You’re no longer limited to fixed virtual machine (VM) sizes with 4, 8, or 16 cores and static memory ratios per core,” writes Karan Batta, the vice president of Product at Oracle, in his blog post. “You can deploy a five-core VM with 25 GB of RAM, if that’s what you need, and pay only for what you use.”

Read the details on the blog post.